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March 29, 2012

Defense and Security
The World Next Week: U.S. Presidency of the UN Security Council

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the United States’ upcoming presidency of the UN Security Council; World Bank president nominee Dr. Jim Yong Kim’s world "listening tour…

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Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

March 29, 2012

Israel
Middle East Matters This Week: A Syrian Peace Plan, An Arab Summit in Baghdad, and Iran Prepares for Nuclear Talks

Significant Middle East Developments Syria. A spokesman for UN special envoy Kofi Annan announced on Tuesday that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad accepted Annan’s six-point peace plan. Iran also an…

Iraq's foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari meets with his Kuwaiti counterpart sheikh Sabah Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah upon his arrival for the Arab foreign ministers meeting as part of the Arab League Summit in Baghdad on March 28, 2012 (Mohammed Ameen/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Robert Danin Middle East Matters

February 28, 2013

International Law
“A Moment of Truth” for Syrian Refugees—and International Justice

Yesterday Antonio Gutteres, the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Refugees, briefed the UN Security Council on the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Syria. Gutteres’ remarks, delivered in c…

Syrian refugees chat as they spend time at a refugee camp in the Turkish border town of Yayladagi in Hatay province
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

February 19, 2014

North Korea
Making the Case Against North Korea

While North Korea has been condemned by a UN panel for crimes against humanity, its ally China is focused on denuclearization, not human rights, says CFR’s Scott Snyder.

Interview by Scott A. Snyder and Bernard Gwertzman

May 22, 2014

International Organizations
Voting Against Accountability for Syria

Coauthored with Claire Schachter, research associate in the International Institutions and Global Governance program. Today the UN Security Council voted on a French draft resolution referring the s…

Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist